[notifications] Can't use toolbar while notifications on screen

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

With notifications on the screen, they're overlayed on top of the top toolbar, as such I can't tap the back button.

To replicate.
Open system settings -> accounts
Sign in to twitter
Wait while tweet notifications come in
Navigate anywhere in system settings, such as updates.
Note you can't go back while the notifications are on screen.

See screenshot, back button obscured.

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Desired resolution:

- All types of notifications should be dismissable

[Daniela Ferrai (dferrai)]

Based on latest notification specification, user can dismiss notification with right to left swipe.
Document available here:
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1ehZGFePGmy8pnyAGsgWYDeBgr45Cc8jE2mTb2Qz-oeM/edit#heading=h.l9277ssjb99w

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

fix by virtue of new notifications being dismissable

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Yeah, they're not, yet.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Only snap-decisions are meant to be dismissable via swipe. Who connected this bug to branch lp:~macslow/unity8/swipe-dismiss-snap-decisions ?

I do not agree with the current state of solution. The design-document explicitly states only snap-decision notifications to be dismissable (via swipe).

Before proceeding with a fix for this I would like to get a clear guideline from Design for this non-snap-decision case. Thus marked as "Opinion" for the moment.

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

changing to "new" for design so they'll look at it again

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

FWIW dismissing only snap decisions doesn't really solve anything as you could always dismiss them, using a button in the snap decision (even though dismissing is actually a different action than cancelling, for example).

[James Mulholland (jamesmulholland)]

Can confirm that swiping left to right is the agreed method for dismissing notifications.
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1ehZGFePGmy8pnyAGsgWYDeBgr45Cc8jE2mTb2Qz-oeM/edit#

Snap decision, Page 11:
"the user responded to the notifications and selected one of the options available. If the snap decision is contracted the user can dismiss it by swiping left to right."
--Note: Notification states that have "options available" feature a "decline" button.

Clickable notifications, Page 17:
"User responded: The user responded to the notifications by clicking it or dismissed by swiping left to right."

Launcher icon badges, Page 21:
"The count is dismissed once the item has viewed the item."

Synchronous notifications, Page 22:
"The time after which this notification disappears is 3 seconds and during this time they cannot be dismissed."

Notification center, Pages 29 & 30 :
"Swipe left to right to dismiss"

In the example case provided (Twitter notification), the notification appears to most closely resembles the 'contracted' snap decision element (i.e. see the notification, tap on it to interact/view in full/reply/ etc or swipe it from left to right to dismiss when no relevant tappable decline/ dismiss button is offered.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

So there are no ephemeral notifications anymore?! I do not see them being refered to in any way in the design-document. See...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-uBmr_TNQ&t=1m30s

... for an example.

Ephemeral notifications are just that. Not interactive in any way and just used to display not too important information to the user, which can be missed by the user without any impact. They are a typical for desktop/convergence settings.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

FWIW ephemeral notifications as they are in unity7 now only make sense in a pointer scenario, with touch you need to be able to dismiss them 'cause there's no way to hover to reach what's behind them.

So even if we do still want ephemeral notifications, they need to not be ephemeral to touch, otherwise you need to wait for them to disappear to find what's below.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

"swiping left to right is the agreed method for dismissing notifications."

Just one direction?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.02+15.04.20150211-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.02+15.04.20150211-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Redesign tutorial to match latest spec (just removing obsolete pages
    and redesigning look, no new pages yet)
  * Add new right-edge and bottom-edge screens to the first-boot edge
    tutorial (LP: #1383297)
  * Support switching the indicator profile on the fly, as the greeter
    appears and disappears. (But don't use it yet, not until the
    settings panel to control this is in place.)
  * Clip the infographic to its bounding box, instead of letting it
    bleed past the welcome page (visible when dragging the welcome page
    to the side).

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * Add an AccountService based launcher model to be used with split
    greeter
  * Launcher fixes for windowed mode
  * save and restore window size and position
  * Fix resizing windows when making it smaller than minSize and then
    larger again.

  [ handsome_feng<email address hidden> ]
  * makes the header fully reveal when tapping the search icon. (LP:
    #1379327)

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Allow swipe-to-dismiss for contracted snap-decision notifications,
    interactive notifications and ephemeral notifications. (LP:
    #1355422, #1334855)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Make indicators bar eat all events
  * Improve Launcher tests, making them more reliable
  * Tapping on a surface gives it active focus
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:13:16 +0000

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

The fix for this is the same as bug #1355422, please accept for RTM inclusion.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.02+15.04.20150217~rtm-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.02+15.04.20150217~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=medium

  [ Albert astals ]
  * Preserve the aspect ratio for the card attribute images

  [ Andrea Cimitan ]
  * support background on horizontal cards with summary (LP: #1393008)
  * Background needs to be specified to be visible in horizontal cards
  (LP: #1411748)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Don't show() the lockscreen if it's already being shown

  [ Joshua Arenson ]
  * Create a PhysicalKeyMapper to handle all physical/hardware keys

  [ Michał Sawicz ]
  * Create a PhysicalKeyMapper to handle all physical/hardware keys

  [ Mirco Müller ]
  * Allow swipe-to-dismiss for contracted snap-decision notifications,
    interactive notifications and ephemeral notifications. (LP:
    #1355422, #1334855)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:47:19 +0000

[Paty Davila (dizzypaty)]

Seems to work fine in 15.04(r75)